--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ravi wrote:
>
> >I bet you could beat me at chess with just your
> king and all my pieces
> >;-). Talking of Kasparov: a while back he said
> something to the effect
> >that women cannot (ever) play as well as men, which
> he has reversed
> >recently. He also cheated young Judit Polgar (17?)
> of a victory, many
> >years ago, though IIRC she recently beat him at
> speed chess. Another
> >Larry Summers like genius Bobby Fisher made similar
> statements about
> >women's abilities in chess. Funny that she became
> the youngest GM in
> >history, beating old Bobby's record ;-).
> >
> There are certain areas that men like to claim for
> themselves. When I
> was a State Park ranger, I had to have firearms
> training and I found,
> much to everyone's surprise, that I was a crack
> shot. When I took my
> qualifying exams, I got a nearly perfect score --
> 198 out of 200. Since
> I was female, they figured it was a fluke and made
> me take it again
> ...and I got exactly the same score. (They didn't
> make any of the men
> take it again no matter what their score was.)
>
> That was one of the most enjoyable days of my life.
>
> I suspect that the more that women get the message
> that it's OK to be
> good at chess, mountain climbing, math, etc., the
> better they will get
> at those things. And it will be a wonderful thing.
>
> My daughter is having a pretty good time in first
> year algebra -- she
> just came home with an A+. She's twelve so that's
> pretty good going.
> She's ahead of where I was when I was her age, and
> it's a wonderful thing.
>
> Joanna
>
> >
> >
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